{"id":10843,"date":"2016-10-07T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2016-10-07T12:27:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:27:02","slug":"vancouvers-k-12-university-crisis-ubc-ubcnews-bced-ubced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2016\/10\/vancouvers-k-12-university-crisis-ubc-ubcnews-bced-ubced\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver&#8217;s K-12-university crisis #ubc #ubcnews #bced #ubced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/134760388@N08\/albums\/72157656112341170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10844\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/files\/2016\/10\/20089915295_711d75bd15_m.jpg\" alt=\"20089915295_711d75bd15_m\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stephen Petrina &amp; E. Wayne Ross, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverobserver.com\/opinion\/vancouver-faces-stark-contrasts-between-funding-k-12-and-university\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vancouver Observer<\/em><\/a>, October 7, 2016&#8211;\u00a0Vancouver, the city of disparities, is faced with polar opposites in its educational system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The contrast between K-12 schools and the university in Vancouver could not be more stark: The schools sinking in debt with rapidly declining enrolments and empty seats versus the university swimming in cash and bloating quotas to force excessive enrolments beyond capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">With central offices just 7km or 12 minutes apart, the two operate as if in different hemispheres or eras: the schools laying off teachers and planning to close buildings versus the university given a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendar.ubc.ca\/Vancouver\/index.cfm?page=appendix1\" target=\"_blank\">quota for preparing about 650 teachers<\/a>\u00a0for a glutted market with few to no jobs on the remote horizon in the largest city of the province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">There is a gateway from grade 12 in high school to grade 13 in the university but from a finance perspective there appears an unbreachable wall between village and castle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Pundits and researchers are nonetheless mistaken in believing that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vsb.bc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/financials\/2016-2017%2520Revised%2520Preliminary%2520Budget%2520Proposals%2520Report%2520June%25209%25202016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver schools\u2019 current $22m shortfall<\/a>\u00a0is disconnected from the university\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bog3.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/files\/2015\/11\/3.21b_2015.12_UBC-Properties-Trust.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">$36m real estate windfall this past year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The schools are begging for funds from the Liberals, who, after saying no to K-12, turn around to say yes to grades 13-24 and pour money into the University of British Columbia, no questions asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">There may be two ministries in government, Education and Advanced Education; there is but one tax-funded bank account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverobserver.com\/opinion\/vancouver-faces-stark-contrasts-between-funding-k-12-and-university\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vancouver Observer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Petrina &amp; E. Wayne Ross, Vancouver Observer, October 7, 2016&#8211;\u00a0Vancouver, the city of disparities, is faced with polar opposites in its educational system. The contrast between K-12 schools and the university in Vancouver could not be more stark: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2016\/10\/vancouvers-k-12-university-crisis-ubc-ubcnews-bced-ubced\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,2249,287,406501,5553,2251,635,540460,2273,2276],"tags":[1288925,1288941,1288930,1288951,1288961],"class_list":["post-10843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-accountability","category-administration","category-bc-education","category-budgets","category-budgets-funding","category-government","category-institute-for-critical-education-studies","category-students","category-working-conditions","tag-academic-freedom","tag-budgets-funding","tag-government","tag-k-12-issues","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10846,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions\/10846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}